Review: Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn (Dating by Numbers #2)

Well, that’s not entirely true, but I’m going to tell you a little secret: I’ve lost the spark.

You know the kind of spark I’m talking about?

Where butterflies take flight in your stomach from two hands innocently colliding. Or catching your breath when you first meet someone attractive. Yeah, that spark.

Except I haven’t felt that feeling in forever; there is nothing left inside of me.

Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem–but I’m a writer on a serious deadline, and my editor is breathing down my neck for a romantic, Nicholas Sparks type love story. No pressure, right?

That’s how I find myself flying across the country to crash a wedding in the name of research, dress and heels stuffed into my small suitcase.

It should be the easiest book research ever. Drinking some free champagne, basking in the love of two strangers, and tapping into my romantic side. That will be a breeze. I’m a pro. I can handle this.

Until I mistakenly end up in the wrong hotel room, naked as the day I was born, with the sexiest human I have ever met staring me down, wondering what I’m doing taking a shower in his bathroom. I don’t think calling it research will get me out of this pickle.

Two Wedding Crashers is book two in the Dating by Numbers series. It can be read as a standalone but I recommend reading the previous book, Three Blind Dates, because it is amazing. Read my review HERE.

Y’all are going to think I change my mind all the time like that one song by Katy Perry but it’s all Meghan Quinn’s fault. I said Three Blind Dates was my new favorite book by Meghan not long ago and now I’m changing my mind once again because the woman keeps out doing herself and Two Wedding Crashers is a FANTASTIC book.

Beck, the guy who stole everyone’s heart in Three Blind Dates, meets THE girl while on a short and much-needed vacation to Key West. He’s there to unwind and crash a wedding and Rylee is there for the same reason. Sparks fly as soon as Beck lays eyes on Rylee’s naked body… I mean, as soon as they lay eyes on each other. And from that moment on they spend pretty much every hour of their little vacation together. They flirt, talk, flirt, laugh, flirt, have the best time, flirt and fall for each other. But their vacation has an end date just like their time together and eventually have to go back to living their lives miles away from each other.

Beck was my favorite guy when I read Three Blind Dates and I’m so happy he got his own HEA. You really get to meet him on a deeper level in this book and let me tell you, he is even better than you can imagine. He’s resilient, romantic, sweet, confident, an artist, a fighter and very dreamy.
Rylee is such a hilarious character. She’s a writer of romance books. She is outspoken, fierce, hilarious, quirky and very strong. There’s much more to her than you can see at first glance and you are going to love her.

Two Wedding Crashers is divided in parts, four parts I think (owner of the worst memory right here, sorry). Every part has several chapters told from alternating point of views between Rylee and Beck. The entire story is unputdownable. There’s not one boring moment in the book and even though it might sounds like Beck and Rylee get it on very early in the book, they really don’t. The pacing is perfect, everything happens at the right moment.

I sound like a broken record every time I write reviews for books by Meghan but they really are worthy of sharing with the world. Every time I need a romantic comedy with a hint of reality and seriousness and emotion then she is my go-to author. She can have you cracking up one moment and shedding a tear of emotion in a matter of words. I can’t tell y’all how amazing her writing really is so go read this book!

5 / 5 flowers

Chills scream their way down my arms and legs, my nipples pucker, and just like that, with one word, all humor vanishes from our little conversation and awareness of this all-consuming man wrapped around me hits me hard.

“Hmm.” His thumbs hook under the waistband of my shorts, playing with the lower part of my hipbones. His touch spurs on my pelvis, needing to rock, begging for him to go lower. My toes curl in my sandals and my back slightly arches, reaching for more. “Something they know about me.”

His mouth doesn’t stray from its position against my ear, and his hips start to slowly move underneath me, his legs tangling with mine. Involuntarily, one of my hands hooks the back of his neck as I hold on tightly to him, feeling like I need support from the onslaught of sensation I’m feeling.

I hear him say something, but it doesn’t register in my brain, which has turned to mush as his thumbs stray from my hipbones to right above my pubic bone.

There is no denying how turned on I am, how wet I am from his mere touch, how much—despite my reservations—I want this man.

With each stroke, my head turns farther and farther to the side until our noses are touching, Beck’s head bends forward to meet me halfway. My eyes flutter shut for a brief moment before I open them and am captured by those flecks of green and gold.

The air stills around us, our breath mixing, swirling between us, our lips so close.

One swipe of this thumb.

Another one.

I can’t breathe.

I can’t focus.

Another swipe, my head leans even closer, my tongue wetting my lips.

One more swipe . . .

My heart hammers in my chest, my skin prickling with awareness.

Beck brings his mouth even closer, only a whisper away now, and he waits.

A low, provocative moan escapes Beck as one of his hands snags the back of my head and holds me in place, almost as if he lets go, I’ll disappear.

Needing more, I shift on his lap so I’m straddling him once again, my hands on his bare chest, feeling the powerful sinew that holds him together.

Our lips press and mold, mingling, taking, begging . . .

Desperate.

Beck’s tongue runs against my bottom lip, eliciting a moan from deep within me, lighting a fire so hot, so wild, my hands start to travel up his neck to his cheeks where I grip him, positioning his head so when I open my mouth, I can expertly dive my tongue onto his.

He groans, his lap shifting against mine now, his hard-on pressing against my wet and throbbing center. I match his rocking, using my position on his lap to take advantage of his length I can feel through his board shorts.

This is exactly what I didn’t want to happen, but God, am I happy it has. Maybe I really should live in the moment, maybe I should take advantage of the opportunity, maybe I should…

Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.

Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.

Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!